Clown Knife Fish, How To Pellet Train?

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Hey Everyone, I Have a Clown Knife Fish And he's very inactive and always hiding till the lights go off...:(
Every night, i serve market shrimp stuffed with Hikari Massivore, Massivore Pellets, and occasionally live ghost shrimp, but this can get pricey from time to time and i was curious if there was any way to get him on to pellets besides starving him, or what are the foods you guys feed him to help him grow big and healthy? Thanks!
 
there is no way besides starving, if they know there is other food coming they will wait, i starved mine for 2 weeks and he finally ate market shrimp. mine is 13" and wont go near pellets, but i am happy because its better than feeder fish.
 
i had several big ones, over the time.

My last 2 footer resisted for six months before eating pellets.

Is it alone? other pellets grabbing fish are an incentive to it.

I believe that, from a certain size up ( when they have passde the juvenile stage ) the more we fret and worry, the worse. Leave it be. Forget it because it will eat pellets.
 
i have him currently on market shrimp, he's doing well. i guess your right, just enjoy the fish, thanks for the help guys. :)
 
shrimp. and then pellets, induced by his tank companions.

they grow quickly when well fed and taken care of.
 
I have 3 of these at the moment and have grown them up together. They all eat massivore pellets and raw prawn. I find that it is much easier to pellet train when they are young and competition also makes them better at eating pellets. They will grow very fast; mine are now around a year old and 16inches long with their growth starting to slow down a bit now. Also if you give him some cover eg: driftwood or a cave and low light levels he will be a lot more active.
 
what tank have you grown them up in & what would you say their monthly growth rate was over the year time period? could you guess how big they were when you got them?
 
I have one. he loves live feeders, yet sucks at catching them. but I feed frozen blood worms. brine shrimp and krill. has a hard time eating the krill but he eats it spits it up, eats it spits it up, until he finally keeps it down. no training needed just feeding my other fish in the tank and he eats. it will also eat shrimp pellets and sinking carnivore pellets only if it sees it in front of its face. will not eat off the ground but falling will suck up and eat. sorry not much help but just saying fish will do as they want. im having trouble training other fish but starving isn't an option because I feed the other fish that do eat food.
 
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